Email is good.

I hadn’t heard of SaneBox until running across this interview Focus on the email that matters with Dmitri Leonov, founder of SaneBox. Fair warning, it has a kind of “sponsored content” vibe to it, but I enjoyed it. It has interesting data in it and it seems like the tools they are building are generally thoughtful and useful. Like…

Many emails that come in are emails you want to read – just not immediately. SaneLater stores those emails so you can get to them on your own timeline – and will also send you a daily summary of what you missed.

SaneBlackHole allows you to get rid of unwanted emails in one click – and once you make that click, you’ll never receive another message from that sender again, which is perfect for banishing people or companies you’re not interested in from your inbox.

I don’t know if I need them, but I like the thinking there.

I also like that they made it a priority with the product that you don’t have to entirely replace the tools you already use or even the email client.

SaneBox works with any email service that provides IMAP, EWS – OWA, or Active Sync, such as Yahoo! Mail, Gmail, AOL, iCloud, MS Exchange, Microsoft 365, Fastmail, Amazon WorkMail, and many others.

You can also use SaneBox anywhere you check your email, whether that’s a PC or Mac, desktop, tablet, or mobile.

I like it when tools have a strong opinion on the thing they do, and are unopinionated on everything else.